On Thursday morning Izak and I stuffed our car with food, clothes and alcohol, we stopped at various shops to gather more food and alcohol, and headed into Auckland City to board our ferry. My little Toyota’s belly was hanging low to the deck, the boat was happily bearing us away, my car was full of…
You just have to face it sometimes, you’ve messed up and you need to do the right thing and put a bullet in it. No point in letting it drag on. This comic went through a bunch of alternatives, we ended up going with the original, but here are the other ideas we were fiddling…
No one really thinks about history’s bit players. But these folks, who were no more than mere footnotes in the annals of history, still had to deal with the fallout from great recorded catastrophes and intensely personal tragedies alike. There are so many little stories that we’ll never know – but that’s okay. Because, in…
Bread and circuses, man. That’s all it takes. ↓ TranscriptIt’s a new devil’s first day on the job in Hell. A foredevil hands him a pitchfork. “Hey, it’s the new guy! We’re starting you off on the Pitchfork Pitch Pit so you can get a feel for the basics.” In the background a vast bubbling…
I thought you might like to have this panel: Now you can send it to your friends when they too are being lazy fucks! The Izak Smells crew is going to Waiheke Island this Easter weekend for an artist’s retreat. Nah, I’m just screwing with you, we wont be doing any drawing. We’ll be drinking,…
It’s very rare that we’ll reference current events on an Izak Smells strip, but we’d had that Jurassic Park gag sitting in the bank for about a year and this was too good an opportunity to pass up. Jurassic Park is one of those movies that I was obsessed with as a kid, but I haven’t…
This one was inspired by a true rejection of becoming part of the greater spoon alliance in the bedroom. What is a big spoon without it’s little spoon? Are there even truly little spoons? Spoons that commonly rest together are really the same size, there we go #bodypositivity #spoonsizematters Also we all totally forgot St.…
We live our lives with deep filters on. We see what we expect to see, and understand what we want to understand, because it’s much easier than constantly being alert, always questioning. Lovecraft liked to say that if we really comprehended the truth, we’d lose our minds, but his horrors were always immense and universal. What…
Me and Becky were lying in bed when she started telling me a story about two little guys who fought on her butt. Eventually they built two little mosques on either side, one on the left, the other on the right. “This is a shaggy dog story isn’t it?” I asked, knowing that she was…
This is the firstborn of a new initiative we’re trying: IZS Greenlight. Basically if we want to test out a strip that we think might not work, Izak does a rough and ready version of it, then chucks it up on Imgur to gauge a response. If people seem to connect with it, we’ll redo…